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Recasting Readmissions by Placing the Hospital Role in Community Context

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​McCarthy D, Bihrle Johnson M, Audet AM. Recasting readmissions by placing the hospital role in community context. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013 Jan;309(4):351-352.

The authors suggest that it is advantageous to view readmissions within a broader systems and community context that effectively engages all stakeholders to cooperatively improve outcomes. A promising innovation emerging from IHI's STAAR initiative to reduce avoidable rehospitalizations is the creation of collaborative cross-continuum teams.

October 25, 2018 | Initiatives to reduce avoidable readmissions are the norm in US health systems today. What happens when hospitals and health systems look beyond to the non-clinical issues upstream that have a big impact on rehospitalizations?